Accessibility

Our website has been designed with a number of accessibility features. The key features include:Alternative text
Readable and resizable fonts and layout
Minimising the use of images to convey meaningful information
Help us to help you
User-testing

Alternative text
Images on our website have alternative text attributes, often known as alt text. This means that when an image is used on a web page to convey information its content is also described in the alt text. This means that the image can be understood by text browsers and assistive technologies such as screen readers. If an image is used for simply decorative purposes, the text attribute for the image is left empty in line with accepted best practice.

Readable and resizable fonts and layout
The Big Dance website uses font sizes that you can control using your web browser.

You can change the text size in Microsoft Internet Explorer by selecting View > Text size followed by your preferred text size from ‘Smallest’ to ‘Largest’. The default setting is ‘Medium’.

You can change the text size in Mozilla Firefox by selecting View > Text size followed by ‘Increase’ or ‘Decrease’. To return the text size to its default setting, select ‘Normal’.

The website’s fonts have been chosen for their legibility on computer screens. The website’s layout has been designed to stretch to fill the width of the browser, so that you can resize the browser to suit your own viewing preferences.

Minimising the use of images
Live text is used rather than graphics wherever possible to reduce page download time and to increase your control over text size.

Help us to help you
We seek to meet the Priority A, AA, and selected AAA guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Our website will be tested on a regular basis using a combination of automated tools to identify potential problem areas and manual testing to ensure we meet the spirit as well as the letter of the W3C’s accessibility guidelines. In addition our Access partner Shape Arts will review our site and advise us on where we can make improvements.

Inevitably, we won’t always get it right, but we are committed to addressing any access issues promptly. And that’s where we’d like your help. If you experience any difficulties in accessing our website, or have trouble using any aspect of the website, we’d like you to let us know. Contact us and let us know your experience.